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151 | 151 | The PAUSE account information need to be updated manually via
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152 | 152 | [Edit Account Info](https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=edit_cred).
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153 | 153 |
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| 154 | +## How to adopt a distribution? |
| 155 | + |
| 156 | +### What does the "Take me over?", "Why not adopt me?", "Looking for help!" mean? |
| 157 | + |
| 158 | +CPAN Distributions can be marked by their authors (or by the CPAN admins when the author is not available) |
| 159 | +to be "up for adoption". This can be done by adding one of the following PAUSE accounts |
| 160 | +as co-maintainers: ADOPTME, HANDOFF, or NEEDHELP. For a more detailed explanation |
| 161 | +read the post [Marking modules as 'available for adoption'](http://neilb.org/2013/08/07/adoptme.html). |
| 162 | + |
| 163 | + |
| 164 | +### How to become the maintainer or co-maintainer of a CPAN distribution? |
| 165 | + |
| 166 | +See the description how to [adopt a CPAN module](http://neilb.org/2013/07/24/adopt-a-module.html) |
| 167 | +and check out the [CPAN adoption request template](http://neilb.org/2014/01/31/adoption-request.html). |
| 168 | + |
| 169 | +See also the list of [CPAN Adoption Candidates](https://neilb.org/adoption/). |
| 170 | + |
| 171 | +### How to mark a distribution that is up for adoption? |
| 172 | + |
| 173 | +If you are the maintainer of the distribution you can follow these steps: |
| 174 | + |
| 175 | +* Visit [PAUSE](https://pause.perl.org/) |
| 176 | +* Click on "Add Comaintainers" |
| 177 | +* Filter for the name of the distribution. |
| 178 | +* Check the box next to the name of the distribution. |
| 179 | +* Type in HANDOFF as userid. |
| 180 | +* Click on "Make Co-Maintainer" |
| 181 | +* Within an hour the change will show up on MetaCPAN. |
| 182 | + |
| 183 | +### How to remove the "adopt me" banner from the module? |
| 184 | + |
| 185 | +Remove the author ADOPTME, HANDOFF, or NEEDHELP from the project. |
| 186 | + |
| 187 | +* Visit [PAUSE](https://pause.perl.org/) |
| 188 | +* Click on "Remove Comaintainers". |
| 189 | +* Filter for the name of the distribution. |
| 190 | +* Check which one of the above 3 are listed. |
| 191 | +* Select them and click on "Remove". |
| 192 | +* Within an hour the change will show up on MetaCPAN. |
| 193 | + |
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